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American Emma Navarro says she has gained her "life back" after opening up on long-running health problems that caused significant weight loss, fatigue, dizziness and left her "feeling deep internal anger" on the court. Navarro, who claimed her first title in more than a year at the Strasbourg Open in May, is currently ranked 24th in the world. The 25-year-old was as high as eighth in 2024, the year she reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and the last four at the US Open in her native New York. But towards the end of 2025 she was diagnosed with relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) and subsequently found out she was suffering with the autoimmune disorder Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. Those issues contributed to her losing nine of her first 13 matches in 2026 and withdrawing from the Charleston Open at the end of March. She says she initially ignored problems that dogged her for three years due to exceeding her expectations on the court. "Being new to professional tennis, I was doing what my team and I thought was best, and pushing myself to the limit was always my MO," she wrote in a lengthy post on Instagram., external"And it worked.